I received an interesting email today from Kevin Kavanagh at Trinity College Dublin. The Letters of 1916 project at Trinity College is creating digital collection of letters written between 1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916.

Letters of 1916 is the first public humanities project in Ireland. it is creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916).

This project could help provide insight into an important period in Irish history. It also occurs to be that this could be a model of a new way of looking at historical events and if it is successful could lead to many other projects of interest to historians or genealogists.

If you are interested in getting involved or helping, there is contact information on the webpage of the Letters of 1916 project.